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Petrosian vs the Elite
71 Victories by the
Master of Manoeuvre
1946-1983
Ray Keene and Julian Simpole
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Contents
Page
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Introduction
17
Petrosian's Career: Signiicant Moments
at a Glance
Foreword and Acknowledgements
19
20
1 Ening his Spurs
46
2 Champion and Candidate
78
3 Winning the World Title
116
4 Triumphant Defence
140
5 Olympic Golds
6 Passing the Baton
167
7 Great Opponents
207
8 Goterdammerung
239
Tonament Tables
253
Index of Opponents
297
Index of Supplementary Games
298
and Game Extracts
Index of Openings
299
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Introduction
"Strategical masterpieces ofa mysterious vein"
by Ray Keene
he standard account ofthe
career of Petrosian was
written by the British
master and Russian
language expert Peter
Clarke. The above quotation comes
rom Clarke's own description of the
subject of this book, the enigmatic
Armenian World Champion, Tigran
Vartanovich Perosian. Clarke's work,
entitled, Petrosian s Best Games of
Chess, is a mastepiece and it has been
published in the Hardinge Simpole
series. However, it by no means
tells the ull story about Petrosian.
Important wins against such notable
opponents as Fischer, Keres, Stein and
Geller are omitted, while Clarke's
narrative only takes the reader as far as
1963, when Petrosian seized the world
crown rom the ageing Czar of Soviet
chess, Mikhail Botvinnik. There were
two more decades of top-light chess to
come!
This book, therefore, is designed to
ill in the gaps and also take the story to
its conclusion. The missing wins
against the elite rom the period already
covered by Clarke are included, while
ther victories rom Petrosian's later
period against such luminaries as
Larsen, Portisch, Najdorf, Timman,
Kapov and Kasparov are added to give
a complete picture of Petrosian's
career. In doing this we have also
avoided duplicating games analysed by
Peter Clarke. Unlike another work on
Petrosian, the two volume anthology of
all ofPetrosian's games by Shekhtman,
we have concentrated in the main body
of the text on games against opponents
who belonged to the chess elite, and we
have also urnished every game
selected with deep and we hope
authoritative notes. It is our irm belief
that the reader gains the maximum
from grandmaster practice when
annotated games, complete with
variations and verbal explanations, are
provided.
In Petrosian's case this is particularly
important. Petrosian was a deep player
whose ideas do not readily manifest
themselves. Whereas the chess
enthusiast may easily comprehend a
slash and bum punch-up between
grandmasters in the open Sicilian
Defence, where attacks race on
opposite wings to deliver checkmate,
Petrosian's more subtle and long-range
ploys, designed of course to bale the
opponent, may also end up bewildering
the reader. Hence the note ofmystery to
which Clarke refered, a quality shared
by Nimzowitsch amongst Petrosian's
intellectual forebears, and one also
described by contemporaries as
witchcrat.
Consider wins rom our later text,
such as those against Fischer from
1959, where the entire black army is
consigned to an Hadean rozen lake of
Dante-esque or Miltonic dimension, or
against Spassky from 1966 where
minor pieces are made to look far more
efective than rooks, or again against
Kasparov from 198 1. Here, in the
midst of a typically Kasparovian
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